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About / News & Press / Special MMoA exhibits put the pencil in your hand
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Special MMoA exhibits put the pencil in your hand

Posted on: August 14th, 2014

By Kevin Lee/Arts Editor
Lagniappe

Mothers might want to cover your eyes as your youngsters do the unthinkable and draw all over the walls of the Mobile Museum of Art (MMoA). Nothing could please the facility more.

It’s all part of The Big Draw, a global initiative to spark creative energies by getting those who love to draw as well as those who can’t actively engaged in putting pencil to paper and “taking a line for a walk,” to paraphrase artist Paul Klee. Little coincidence it’s sponsored by pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell. Read more>>

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